Cloudy here, too. Rats!
Maybe it will clear up by 9:30 tonight! (crossing fingers)
You are a funny man.
Cloudy and crappy here tonight. I wasn’t planning on getting up in the middle of the night anyway. I’ve seen total lunar eclipses before. I’m holding out for a total solar eclipse.
Jeebus, girl. I’ve got half a mind to run over there and see if y’all really do this.
It starts at 11:27 our time.
Snowed out here.
I’m going to try and stay up but I don’t think I’m going to make it, and it’s just perfect here to see the entire eclipse!
I have set up my cot on the sidewalk just outside my front door! Off too watch and try to take pictures. It’s 61 degrees!
A touch overcast, but the moon is pretty much visible, but it really hasnt started to do anything here yet, ill check in another hour.
Too bad…we have a huge cloud cover in Ky. I remember lying out viewing the stars with my Dad pointing out constellations to me. I was just a little kid, but I learned to love astronomy because of his example. You parents…go to it.
Doesn’t look very promising, but we’re ready!
Another ten minutes or so, and the moon will start to enter into the umbra. About 70 minutes after that it will start the period of full eclipse.
Curse the local news time mixup for getting my hopes up. The morning paper said the eclipse would start at 12:29. The radio this evening said it would start at 1:29. The skies were bright and clear at 12:30, but there was no eclipse. It’s now after 1:30 and everything’s clouded over.
Yup, I can already see the shadow moving in.
Also, who scheduled this thing in the winter? I demand a rerun in the spring!
Nice up here in Washington Heights, NYC. Directly overhead.
The earth’s shadow is so much BIGGER than the moon’s disc. It’s like watching a dinner plate eating a coffee saucer.
I have some halfway-decent pix (sufficient focus to see the lunar face, not enough to see individual craters and stuff), but not uploaded yet.
Aye. I’d never seen one before and expected it to look like the moon rapidly changing phases. Instead it’s more like it’s being edged out of existence. Nifty. If only I could find my binoculars.
Aye, great. Out east on Long Island I’d almost given up and been watching webcasts, but I did peek outside and it is clearing here too. So hope to see some totality. Since it’s not exactly central it’ll have a brighter side, like a chinese lantern.
East Coast here, with very little cloud cover. We’ve got almost total occlusion. This is cool!
In England it’s getting under way just about at moonset. I can’t see it from my window, and I’m warm and comfortable enough to not care whether the moon has actually set now or if the Western horizon is cloudfree. Eclipses are cool, but I’ve seen 'em before.